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Working with artists Louise Ashcroft and Farmer Glitch you'll be bringing scrap materials to life with electronics! You'll be supported to fit pickups, resonators and other devices to existing foley instruments, plus get to 'hack' scrapped devices, giving them a new life as storm-bringers.

This workshop will build on descriptions of stormy landscapes donated by participants in Storm Machine 1, inspired by Darwin's account of a storm in The Voyage of the Beagle (his diary of a nautical research trip that departed from Plymouth Sound and led to evolutionary theory).

You'll synthilly summon the sublime from the belly of Exeter's waste recycling and processing plants to evoke what it feels like to be at the thunderous helm of the vast machines that keep Exeter clean, 194 years after Darwin's storm, as tempestuous futures brew overhead.

Join the Art Work Exeter team and associate artists for some hands-on workshops, where we'll be talking about the worlds of waste and weather that is extraordinary, awe-inspiring and sublime, and making instruments to create sonic landscapes about it all for the upcoming Pile Up! exhibition at Exeter Custom House.

This workshop is suitable for adults and young people 16 + with some experience tinkering with electronics! Please bring your enthusiasm and wear clothes that will probably get dirty. There may be soldering involved.

These workshops are subsidised by Arts Council England - thanks to the Lottery players! Supported using public funding by Arts Council England, with support from Exeter Custom House, Co Create and the Exeter Canal and Quay Trust.

There are very limited spaces on this workshop and we would like the artists to have a full house of people to participate. If you book a ticket and are unable to come, please let us know well in advance so that we can re-advertise your ticket.